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Sunday, 6 September 2026
13 facts about tears
13 facts about tears
Multipurpose liquid
Associated with emotions, tears are a product of lacrimal glands, found in the eyes of most terrestrial vertebrates. Although their primary function i ...

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Liver
The 10% of the liver is fat.
Exceeding that amount, which is called a fatty liver, may lead to type 2 diabetes, in consequence.
Earth
It is similar with the oceans - depending on the divisions, there are from three to five of them.
We distinguish oceans: Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, and Arctic. The basic ones are considere ...
Snow
Snow accumulates in areas cold enough to remain there seasonally or all the time.
The main areas prone to snow are the Artic, Antarctica, the northern hemisphere, and alpine regions.
Silver
Silver occurs in nature in its native form (a rare mineral consisting mainly of metallic silver), along with sulfur, arsenic, antimony and chlorine.
It is also found in the ores: argentite (a rare mineral from the sulfide group), chlorargyrite (a ve ...
NASA
The first NASA Space Shuttle, Columbia, at the end of its final flight on February 1st, 2003, disintegrated upon reentry, which resulted in the death of all seven members of the crew.
Amber
The largest deposit of amber comes from the Baltic Sea region.
The Baltic amber is the highest quality.
Large Magellanic Cloud
The Large Magellanic Cloud will collide with the Milky Way in about 2.4 billion years.
Moon
The other side of the Moon is called the far side, not the "dark side" as some say, because each part of our satellite is darkened for exactly the same period.
Ganymede
The moon's mantle is surrounded by layers of ice and salty liquid water.
These layers alternate. The surface of the moon consists of hard ice several kilometers thick.
Deimos
Deimos orbits Mars in 30 hours, 17 minutes and 55 seconds.
It moves in an almost circular orbit that is systematically expanding. So unlike Phobos, which will most likely fall to the surface of Mars, Deimos will one day escape into space.